High Score Competition #133 Giga Wing

[jasonbar]

Previous winners:

#001 thru #099 - For list of winners for those competitions  please refer to this link
#100: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Winner - Gray_Area, Second - Tafoid
#101: Marvin's Maze: Winner - Kixfan, Second - Hammerfist
#102: Rally-X:  Winner - Tafoid, Second  djm858
#103: Lock 'N Chase:  Winner - Kixfan, Second - Jasonbar
#104: Space Fury: Winner - Gray_Area, Second - kixfan
#105: Pig Out: Winner - Kixfan, Second - Gray_Area
#106: Carnival: Winner - rick6668, Second - Kixfan
#107: Rastan: Winner - popsicle, Second - rick6668
#108: Peguin-Kun Wars Winner-dancawar, Second - Popsicle
#109: Blood Bros.* Winner - harveybirdman, Second - Jasonbar *scores reflect use of game features considered cheats
#110: Rabbit Punch: Winner - jasonbar, Second - mimic
#111: Alien Syndrome: Winner - mimic, Second Comtek
#112: Block Hole: Winner - Comtek, Second - idsane
#113: Pepper II: Winner - Comtek, Second - Kixfan
#114: Break Thru: Winner - jasonbar, Second - mimic
#115: Ninja Baseball Bat Man: Winner - mimic, Second - Tafoid
#116: Shao-lin's Road: Winner - mimic, Second - Kixfan
#117: Scramble: Winner - Kixfan, Second - jasonbar
#118: Lost Tomb: Winner: Jasonbar, Second: mimic
#119: Green Beret: Winner: LeapinLew, Second: popsicle
#120: Lady Killer: Winner: Comtek Second: Mimic
#121: Qix: Winner: Comtek Second: sorhp
#122: Halley's Comet: Winner: Jasonbar Second: Mimic
#123: Cyber-Lip: Winner: Jasonbar Second: epetti
#124: Lode Runner: Winner: JDFan Second: kixfan
#125: Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom: Winner: Comtek Second: JDFan
#126: Bosconian: Winner: Cynicaster Second: kixfan
#127: Eggs: Winner: Cynicaster Second: kixfan
#128: Eyes: Winner: kixfan Second: Comtek
#129: Galaga '88: Winner: jasonbar, Second: opt2not
#130: Final Fight: Winner: opt2not, Second: Comtek
#131: Hammerin' Harry: Winner: lettuce, Second: kixfan
#132: Battle Circuit: Winner: lettuce, Second: jasonbar

Competition #133: Giga Wing

Kilo Wing not enough wings for you? Mega Wing too small too? You need Giga Wing!








ROM name: gigawing

Default DIP switch settings: no DIP switch settings--go into operator on-screen setting menu & set it up like so:
Game Difficulty: 2
Ship Stock: 3
Force Bomb Stock: 2


Last day: Wednesday, February 5, 2014, midnight Pacific Time.


Description: extreme SHMUPpage to the max

General Rules:
- One Credit, No Continues.
- Highest score wins.
- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.
- MAME INP recordings are encouraged but optional.
- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the game screen.
- If you're a MARP competitor on this title, keep in mind this is just a friendly competition among forum members, so maybe you shouldn't enter. However, if you're a forum member and this is a game you're good at and nobody knows about it, this is your time to shine!
- Even if you don't have a competitive score or if you don't *think* that you have a competitive score, please post it anyway to keep the thread fun & to give everybody a good sense of score ranges.
- Please make sure your scores are from games that take place during the competition period (no posting your best score from last year, etc.).
- Use of autofire or other non-standard hacks within MAME or your PC's OS are not allowed.  No program or other person or entity of any sort may manipulate your controls during your game.  Coaching & back-seat driving is fine as long as the party doesn't directly influence the game or controls.
- If you can beat any of the high scores from the previous competitions, you can submit your score to the BYOAC High Game Scoreboard.

- Quest for the Bronze Joystick! The most successful competitor of each calendar year will possess & display the BYOAC Bronze Joystick Trophy. See this thread for details: The BYOAC Bronze Joystick.

Happy Gaming!

[thomas_surles]

Finally one I can play. Im not too late this time 

[JDFan]

This one's gonna have some crazy scores !! -- Only made it to stage 2 and scored 53,964,022,320 so can only imagine what the score's will be by the end of next week ! 

[jasonbar]

This game needs commas.

[thomas_surles]

first 2 scores.

[epetti]

Been a while but I'll jump in on this one. First attempt:

55,433,905,940

[pbj]

Epetti, make sure you click the "Australian" option when you configure your profile.

This is a silly game and the levels are different based on your character selection. 

[epetti]

Improved to 71,202,206,080. Died on the second boss with a stupid mistake. Apologies for the upside down pictures.  For some reason my iPhone is attaching them that way.

[edekoning]

This site lists some scores you should target, top score is 210'3453'6652'9280
http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=28730

Good luck 

[thomas_surles]

Yeah right.  I got the lowest score so far. In my defense though I have a broken screen and can only see about 50 percent of it.
I will give it a shot on a different screen later today.

[JDFan]

Yeah right.  I got the lowest score so far. In my defense though I have a broken screen and can only see about 50 percent of it.
I will give it a shot on a different screen later today.

You've still got plenty of time to improve the scores - and even though it is a competition it is more just for fun trying different games you may not have played before and comparing how you do versus a few others so the more posted scores the better (since it keeps the thread visible for others to find it ! ) 

[lettuce]

18,678,890,540

[epetti]

For a second I thought you overtook the high score until I looked at the commas. These scores are a pain to read.

[JDFan]

For a second I thought you overtook the high score until I looked at the commas. These scores are a pain to read.

Aint that the truth -- I did notice that the color of the score changes on the hundred million mark so now I just look at it from there (ie. my score of 53,964,022,320 has the 539 in a different color so I just see it as 539 now so I can tell if it improved over my previous high )

[epetti]

Yes during game play but not at the end. And even that's bizarre. Would've made more sense at the million mark instead of ten million.

[jasonbar]

Yah, some of the first (far left) score numbers are yellow, but only during gameplay, not in the high score summary screen.

197,541,548,890.

Used P_____ character...the one with the little rockets.

-Jason

[spoot]

2,734,348,542,650

Purple ship.

[epetti]

Ok, that sets a bar to beat. I'm using purple too. Inched my way up to 91 billion-ish, but far from the trillion mark.

[pbj]

554 zillion?

 

I'm playing the first character that looks like he's about to bomb Pearl Harbor.

[edekoning]

Nice game! I always die with a bunch of unused bombs

475,735,543,220

[epetti]

Nice game! I always die with a bunch of unused bombs

475,735,543,220

Edekoning, I think you accidentally typed in an extra 5 there (47,573,543,220)

I've almost past Jason but fell short:

173,350,235,670

[Generic Eric]

First go in months:

006,775,932,200
016,238,712,140
019,216,830,840
070,698,598,190
084,186,663,040


Collalated 27Jan
002,734,348,542,650      spoot
000,643,804,638,830      edekoning
000,341,532,185,220      epetti
000,222,569,362,830      jasonbar
000,194,766,707,830      JDFAN
000,084,186,663,040      Generic Eric
000,055,395,116,070      pbj
000,018,678,890,540      lettuce
000,003,229,605,730      thomas_surles

Can our Hero post a competitive score by the 5th of February?   Watch this space for a higher score!

[edekoning]

Edekoning, I think you accidentally typed in an extra 5 there (47,573,543,220)

I've almost past Jason but fell short:

173,350,235,670

Whoops 

Anyhow, this is my new hiscore: 272,660,174,870 I used the green ship, which shoots those rolling bombs.

[epetti]

Continuing with the purple ship and the upside down posts, died on third boss:

341,532,185,220

Have no idea how you got to 2 trillion,  spoot. Any pointers?

[spoot]

Reflect bullets into enemies and collect the gold.  The more you collect in a stage the more they are worth.  And I did make it a ways into the game surprisingly.   

[edekoning]

New score: 643,804,638,830 this time I used the blue ship that shoots missiles.

[JDFan]

Guess I need to get some more practice (didn't realize the 2nd stage boss was gonna shoot out a deadly beam and got caught in it as shown in the screenshot ) -- 194,766,707,830

[jasonbar]

Continuing with the blue Porkcha ship. I can't comprehend why anybody would ever choose anything but guided missiles on any game where one can use guided missiles. They're the coolest.

A little better: 222,569,362,830.

Oh, maybe that's why...I'm way behind the curve...


Tried pink guy with angled shots--not a fan. Order of stages definitely different w/ different ships--it's tough playing 1 ship for a while & knowing the stages & then trying another ship--confusing!

-Jason

[spoot]

I can't comprehend why anybody would ever choose anything but guided missiles on any game where one can use guided missiles. They're the coolest.

DPS

[jasonbar]

Oh, PS. The points clearly accumulate non-linearly. The longer you play, the faster your score increases. It seems to be related to picking up gold things & increasing that little multiplier at the top left. I'm not sure if that multiplier number reflects the points you get for picking up the next gold thing or the points you get for shooting the next ship or what. The points just escalate so rapidly that it's difficult to tell. Nonetheless, I'm sure that, the sooner you build up that multiplier, the better your score will ultimately be.

-Jason

[edekoning]

scoring explained: http://www.shmups.com/reviews/gigawing/

The red ship is the one all the experts seem to use, as its easier to get medals with. You only shoot stuff directly in front of you, which also means its harder to kill enemies with

[epetti]

Hmm.  Think I need to use the reflect shot more, not just when I need to to survive.  Looks like it has benefits in getting higher scores from the reflected shots.

One time (and not in my highest scoring game) I was able to get 75 billion in the first stage -- I think it was partially due to making it through on one life so my multiplier was around 900.  Haven't been able to get near that again for the first stage, though.

[spoot]

Hmm.  Think I need to use the reflect shot more, not just when I need to to survive.  Looks like it has benefits in getting higher scores from the reflected shots.

Yeah, wasn't kiddn above when said to reflect shots and get the gold.      

[edekoning]

New score just short of 1 trillion: 918757171480

I can finally get past the boat boss without too much hassle, but now I keep dying on that long dual train thing. Oh well maybe this weekend I'll have better luck, eh skills

[pbj]

This game is actually growing on me.  I've played it a couple of more hours and still haven't beaten my previous score.

 

Some of the music is reminiscent of Psykosonik's work in X-Kaliber 2097 and I'm still trying to remember where that "OK" sample comes from.

[edekoning]

This game is actually growing on me.  I've played it a couple of more hours and still haven't beaten my previous score.

 

Just look on youtube for: Giga Wing [All Stage 1] by crithit5000 for some inspiration 

[epetti]

I feel like my strategy is getting better and I can consistently get into the upper 100-billion now, but still haven't been able to beat my high score.  Keep dying against the second boss, which for the purple ship is the boat boss.  That thing is brutal.

[edekoning]

The first three levels are the same for all ships, there just in a different order. However, these levels are harder if you get to them later. The bosses seem to have slightly different (more annoying attack patterns). As I am using the blue ship, that boat is my first boss, meaning its slightly easier to deal with. I usually have a score of 700-800 (ignoring all the blue digits) when I reach the boat, and that score is usually doubled after I killed it.

Some small scoring tips for the boat level:
-those big red turrets, the ones that shoot three streams of bullets straight down, kill those just before they leave the screen. That should popup a really big medal (20pts) at the top of the screen.
-when you reach the mid boss (the ship that looks like ours and triggers a small dialog), don't shoot it, kill it using reflection only. That means reflect a wave of bullets, dodge and charge the next wave, reflect the following, etc. You choose if you want to start with dodging or reflecting.
One more for your first level (with the big red ship boss):
-just before you clear the land and take to the skies (near the end of the level), you will see a vertical array of turrets on the left, and a smaller vertical array of turrets on the right. Both sides have a tower directly after the turrets. The right one being large, and shooting annoyingly fast. Kill all the right stuff, but only kill the small tower on the left. If you only destroyed the tower, all turrets will explode into a huge medal (20pts)!

I also suggest submitting scores in the way that Gigawing shows them: 123123412345678, makes comparing scores a lot easier.

[spoot]

Played some last night........tried playin a few games for score.....did worse than when I played for survival.  Go figure.

[edekoning]

What level did you reach when you did get the highscore?